Nutella Stuffed Cookies

This recipe has been my flatmates' favourites so far...

Ingredients

15 tsps Nutella 
115 grams unsalted butter 

175 grams light brown sugar 
1 tsp vanilla
1 medium egg
275 grams plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp cornflour 
200 grams finely chopped chocolate

 

 Method

Scoop heaped teaspoons of Nutella onto a lined tray, and freeze until solid. This usually takes 30-60 minutes. Once the Nutella has frozen, make your cookie dough.

Preheat your oven to 170ºC. Line 2-3 baking trays with parchment paper.

Beat together your butter and sugar until fluffy, and then add in your vanilla and egg and beat again until smooth.

Whisk together your flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and cornflour, and then sift it in to the wet mix. Add in the finely chopped chocolate and mix until combined. 

As you scoop each cookie, flatten the dough slightly into a disc shape, and add a frozen lump of Nutella to the middle and then wrap the cookie dough around the Nutella fully so its covered. They will be balls of cookie in the end.

Put no more than 6 cookies on each tray. Each cookie might spread a bit whilst baking, so you want room for them to grow.

Bake in the oven for 11-13 minutes, or until golden. The more you bake, the less gooey they will be.

This recipe belongs to Jane's Patisserie, here is a link to her website: https://www.janespatisserie.com

My Thoughts

I was surprised at how simple this was to make and bake, I thought that adding the nutella would be a lot more fiddly than it actually was.

The texture of the cookie itself is drier than the other recipes on this blog, this is a result of adding the cornflour. However, I think this strikes the perfect balance for the gooey nutella centre.

Make sure you either use chocolate chips or you chop the chocolate very finely because the larger chocolate chunk were difficult to manage when wrapping the cookie dough around the frozen nutella.

I don't think the full 200 grams of chocolate is necessary on top of the nutella centre but it's still very welcome.

Feel free to sub in your favourite spread in place of nutella (biscoff would be my second choice!)